Joe Carnahan thinks his version of Death Wish would ass-whomp Eli Roth’s
When Joe Carnahan left MGM and Paramount’s remake of the crude ’70s revenge thriller Death Wish, he did it with all the tact and good-neighbor diplomacy of someone calling the studio exec he was dealing with a “gutless turd.” Which is ironic, considering he was trying to bring a more thoughtful and meditative reflection on the idea of masculinity and violence to the project. Instead, the studio wanted a more straightforward brutal approach, so naturally they hired Eli Roth. But now, Carnahan is opening up about his shelved screenplay, and in so doing, manages to cast side-eye at the script for Roth’s version so intensely, his cornea likely got stuck at a 90-degree angle.
In a new interview with Collider, Carnahan talks about the new direction of the remake, and as with most things Carnahan, he stops just shy of holding up the studio’s preferred product and emitting a giant fart sound.